Castilleja chrysantha

Greenman

Bot. Gaz. 48: 146. 1909.

Common names: Yellowish or common wallowa paintbrush
Endemic
Synonyms: Castilleja ownbeyana Pennell
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 596. Mentioned on page 574, 597, 609, 648, 651.

Herbs, perennial, (0.5–) 1–2 (–5) dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. Stems few-to-many, erect or ascending, often decumbent at base, unbranched, sometimes branched, hairs spreading, long, soft, mixed with dense, shorter stipitate-glandular ones. Leaves green or purple-tinged, sometimes deep purple, broadly lanceolate, sometimes linear-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 1.5–4.8 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat or involute, 0–3-lobed, apex acute; lobes ascending or spreading, linear to narrowly linear or narrowly lanceolate, short, apex acuminate. Inflorescences 3–17 × 1–3 cm; bracts greenish or pale yellow-green throughout, or proximally greenish or pale yellow-green, distally pale-yellow to whitish, sometimes pink-purple, or pale, dull purplish, sometimes aging pink or yellow, often infused with light purple, rarely pink, ovate to broadly acute, (0–) 3-lobed; lobes ascending, linear-lanceolate, oblong, or triangular, short, arising below mid length, apex acute to obtuse. Calyces proximally green, pale with green veins, purple-tinged green, or purple, distally pale-yellow, white, or purplish, 12–20 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 8–12 mm, 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.5–3 mm, 5–15% of calyx length; lobes short-triangular, apex obtuse, rounded, or truncate. Corollas straight, (16–) 20–25 mm; tube 15–18 mm; beak slightly exserted, adaxially green to yellow, 5.5–8.5 mm; abaxial lip white, green-and-white, pink, or purple, ± prominent, appressed (proximally scarcely or not pouched), 3–5 mm, 67% as long as beak; teeth erect, white or pink with some purple or red, 1.5–2.5 mm.


Phenology: Flowering May–Oct.
Habitat: Flat, mesic meadows, dry talus and ridges, montane to alpine.
Elevation: 1100–2800 m.

Discussion

Castilleja chrysantha is endemic to the mountains of northeastern Oregon, and its patterns of variation need further study. Most plants in the Blue Mountains are taller, more erect, and tolerate lower elevation habitats than populations around the type locality in the Wallowa Mountains. Plants with purplish inflorescences and longer hairs were described as C. ownbeyana and tend to favor drier talus and ridges than plants like the type, found in flat, mesic, montane to subalpine meadows. Hybrids between C. chrysantha and C. fraterna occur in Wallowa County. In the Wallowa Mountains, a recurrent and variable hybrid form between C. chrysantha and C. rhexiifolia was described as C. wallowensis Pennell.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

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0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
purple +, pink +, green-and-white +  and white +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
acute;obtuse +
truncate +, rounded +, obtuse +, acuminate +  and acute +
J. Mark Egger +, Peter F. Zika +, Barbara L. Wilson +, Richard E. Brainerd +  and Nick Otting +
Greenman +
0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br /> (0.85 cm8.5 mm <br />0.0085 m <br />) +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
pink;yellow;pink;aging;purplish;pale;pink-purple;pale;pink-purple;pale yellow-green distally pale-yellow;whitish +
(0-)3-lobed +, ovate +  and broadly acute +
purplish +, white +, pale-yellow +, purple +, purple-tinged green +, pale +  and green +
2-lobed +, lobed +  and tubular +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
taprooted;fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous +
fleshy +  and woody +
Yellowish or common wallowa paintbrush +
1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
purple +, pink +, red +, orange +, yellow +, white +, green +  and pale greenish +
divided +  and tubular +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
1100–2800 m. +
spreading-hairy +  and glabrous +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Flat, mesic meadows, dry talus and ridges, montane to alpine. +
much-branched +, unbranched +  and eglandular +
stipitate-glandular +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (17 cm170 mm <br />0.17 m <br />) +
axillary +  and terminal +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
spiral +, whorled +, alternate +  and opposite +
purple-tinged +  and green +
deciduous +
basal +  and cauline +
oblong;linear-lanceolate;lanceolate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (4.8 cm48 mm <br />0.048 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
arising +, ascending +  and spreading +
3 (?) +, 2 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
short-triangular +, triangular +, oblong +, linear-lanceolate +, lanceolate +  and linear +
subequal +
0-3-lobed +, involute +, flat +  and plane +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
Flowering May–Oct. +
stramineous +
20 +  and 100 +
trapezoidal +, oblong-ovoid +, pyramidal +  and ovoid +
stipitate-glandular +
non-secund +  and secund +
elongate +
subequal +
branched +  and unbranched +
aerial +  and subterranean +
ascending +  and erect +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
not fleshy +
2-lobed +  and entire +
Castilleja ownbeyana +
Castilleja chrysantha +
Castilleja +
species +
, +, pink with some purple or pink with red +  and white +
shallow;deep +
reduced +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +